commanding Ge "ral Calderon, who was besieging him with 2500 men, and as the intertur remained trall quil and i terepof the governmen'." " The Naticioso Mercantil of the 19th, contains a OFFICE OF THE COLONIZATION SOCIETY. OFFICIAL. Department of State, 5th April. The ratifications of the Treaties of Commerce and Intelligence has just arrived by the James Perkins, Navigation,and of Limits, between the United States proclamation of Santa Anna dated at Vera Cruz the frem Liberia. Capt. Crowell, the master of that and the Republie of Mexico have this day been ex. ship, writes from Norfolk, that, after a passage to the Colony of thirty-five days, he landed all the changed by the Secretary of State and the Chargé passengers, 343 in number, in good health, and left there for the United States on the 25th of January. He further observes, "I experienced inuch less trouble with the emigrants than I anticipated; I had 4th of March, in which he alludes to the defeat his troops had sustained, but he does not condescend t make the public any wiser as to the real facts of the case a fair inference may therefore be drawn that the matter was more disastrous than he was willing to admit. de Affairs of the Mexican United States LEGISLATURE OF NEW YORK The following bills from the assembly were favor. Since the above was prepared for the paper, we never occasion to resort to any mode of government ably reported upon by standing and select com mittees: have learned that there were private letters received oxcept that of mild and reasonable requests; and all rect. movements. the passage. from disease." here from Vera Cruz dated the 7th ult. They al- my orders relative to keeping their berths, &c., clean To incorporate the Rensselaer and Saratoga Rail. lude, in general terms, to Santa Anna's defeat, avoi- and dry, as well as the regulations in the cooking road company, without amendment-to incorporate ding all details. They do not, however, mention department, were uniformly received with cheerful- the New York and Erie Rail-road company-to in. the death of Colonel Landero, which would have ness, and promptly obeyed; to which cause, under corporate the Utica and Susquehanna Railroad combeen done had he been among the slain. The report the protecting hand of Providence, I in some mea. pany-to incorporate the Saratoga and Fort Ed. from Hayana on this point, must therefore be incor- sure ascribe their perhaps unparalleled health during ward Rail road company-to incorporate the Albion I am persuaded, that if a like number und Tonawanda' Railroad company to incorporate The lotters mention that in the province of Chi. had been distributed in the largest county in Vir-the Warren county Rail-road company, severally, elte, in the State of Puebla in the South, a chief ginia, they could not have enjoyed greater freedom with amendments. To incorporate the Bowery fire named Osorio, had declared in favor of Santa Anna, company of the city of New.York, with amend. The accounts from the Colonial Agent are such as ments. and was at the head of 500 men. Troops had been Mr. Edmonds said there seemed to be some doubt sent against him from the city of Puebla, and others to encourage the efforts of all the friends of African had also been sent to the State of Oajaca, where Colonization. The Colony is acquiring vast influ- whether the apportionment bill would pass into a ence with the natives, who are constantly express law during the present session of congress. If it there were some apprehensions of revolutionary ing their desire that new settlements should be found should not, some measures ought to be taken in or. It was currently reported at Vera Cruz that there ed in their respective neighborhoods. Dr. Mechlin der to preserve our relative strength in the Union. is of opinion that a large number may be received in If his impression was correct, that some states or had been some indications of revolutionary movements in the city of Mexico, and the Government to the colony during the present year, provided te- territories held their elections for members of con. had cut off ail communication between Vera Cruz ceptacles shall be prepared for their temporary ac-gress, in the year 1833. and the apportionment bill commodation. Africa is indeed inviting her long should not pass until the next session of congress, and the interior. The probable object of this mea. sure was to conceal from the inhabitants of Vera exiled children to return to her bosom, and humani- the result would be that our election would be held Cruz the actual state of the Capital. This infor- ty and religion are coming forward to assist their under the present ratio of representation and the departure to a land which is theirs by an undisputed elections in other states or territories under the new mation does not correspond with the Havana accharter; the home of freedom and of joy to them and ratio, and our relative representation, be affected, counts as to the tranquility of the country. their posterity.-[Nat. Int.] very much to our injury. He was not satisfied that such an event was not desired by some, but whether at was so or not, it became us to guard against it by NAVY DEPARTMENT.-Official information has been all prudent measures, For this purpose and in the received at the Navy Department of the return to hope that an extra-session might be dispensed with, We have now before us two acts passed at the late Montevideo, from the Falkland Islands, of the sloop he would offer for the consideration of the senate the session of the Legislature of Maryland, relative to of war Lexington, having secured on board most ofllowing resolution : HOME AFFAIRS. [From the Richmond Whig.] OFFICIAL the colored population of that State, slave and free, the persons recently engaged there in the outrages Resolved, That the committee on privileges and of sufficient int rests, in connection with the recent on American property and American citizens; hav-elections, be instructed to inquire into the expediendiscussion of the same subject here, to induce us to ing retaken the captured and plundered vessels cy of altering the time of electing representatives to lay a brief abstract of their provisions before our rea- which remained at Birkely Sound, and furnished Congress, so that the time of electing members of ders. relief to such of our seamen as were illegally detain. he 23d Congress, shall be held in the year 1833, and ed, or had been inhumanly left to perish on the that said committee report by bill otherwise. neighboring Islands. The resolution was agreed to. The first, is entitled An Act relating to the peo ple of color. It apppropriates twenty thousand dol Jars, and authorises a loan, not exceeding two hun. NAVAL REGISTER. The bills to extend the time for filling up the stock dred thousand dollars, and places these sums at the Some of the most important changes in the Navy of the Neptune bell marine insurance company of disposal of Commissioners, to be applied to the re- Register, as ascertained at the Department, dur-the city of New York, and to incorporate the Fishmoval of people of color, now free. or who may ing the month of March, 1832. kill factory, were passed. hereafter become so, to Liberia or elsewhere, with Deaths-Lieut. Alexander Eskridge, 17th March; The Senate resolved itself into a committee of the their consent, and to provide for their support after Surgeon James Page, 15th March; Midshipman Pe- whole, on the resolution to amend the constitution, such removal, as far as may be necessary in the ter L. Gansevoort, about 7th March; Midshipman so that the mayor of the city of New York be made opinion of the commissioners. It requires that, in Daniel Carter, 25th March; Boatswain Richard A. an elective officer. all cases of manumission, the person liberated shall Munroe, 27th March. When before in committee on this resolution, Mr. be removed beyond the limits of the State, with or Vessels belonging to each Foreign Station. Tallmadge moved to amend it, so that the Mayors of without the consent of such person, but the option Mediterranean.-Frigate Brandywine. Sloops-all the clues in this State be elected or appointed is given to renounce the right to freedon and to re- John Adams, Ontario, Boston, and Concord. annually, in such manner as the Legislature shall main a slave, and authority is vested in the Orphan's West Indies.-Sloops-Fairfield, Erie, and Vin- direct. This amendment Mr. Seward at that time Court, to grant permission from year to year, to cennes. Schooners-Porpoise, Shark, and Gram- moved to amend, by striking out the words “or apsuch persons as are deemed worthy of it, to remain pus. pointed." in the State. The commissioners are also author. Coast of Brazil.-Sloops-Warren and Lexing. After debate the committee rose and reported,— ized in their discretion, to hire out such manumitted ton.-Schr. Enterprize. Adjourned. slaves, until their wages will produce a sum sufficient Pacific.-Frigate Potomac, Sloop Falmouth, and IN ASSEMBLY. to defray the expenses attending their removal and Schr. Dolphin. On motion, resolved that this house meet to-mor. necessary support at the place of removal. Notices.-S oop Fairfield, Commodore Elliott, ar-row afternoon at 4 o'clock, for the purpose of tak. The second is entitled An Act relating to free rived at the port of St. Thomas, 22d February, having ing up, in committee of the Whole, the several bills negroes and slaves. It prohibits the removal of any visited since her departure from Port au Prince the to incorporate banks and insurance companies. free negro or mulatto into the State. It provides Islands of Gaudaloupe, Martinique, Dominica, Anti- Mr. Hammond laid on the table a resolution prothat, if any such shall come into, and shall remain gua, St. Christopher's, St. Eustacia, St. Croix, and viding that the clerks of either house furnish the ten days in the State, they shall be subject to a fine St. Thomas-sailed thence for St. Johns, Porto trustees of the New York Society Library annually, of nifty dollars for every week they shall remain, and Rico 24th-thence for Port au Prince 27th Februa- with a copy of the journals of the Senate and Asauthorizes a sale for such time as may be necessary ry and arrived there 3d March-all well. Sloop sembly, and of the printed documents, under certain to pay the penalty. It prohibits, under a penalty, the Erie, Capt. Clack, was seen going into St. Domin conditions. einploying any such free negro or mulatto; but ex-go, 12th February-was off Cape St. Nicholas, 22d, A communication was received from the board of cludes from its operation, mariners and drivers of off the harbor of Port-au-Prince, 3d March, and ex. managers of the Troy Savings Bank, giving the fol. wagons from neighboring States, or servants travel. pected in that night, Sloop Vincennes, Capt. Shublowing statement of the affairs of that institution: ing with their masters. rick, sailed from Pensacola about the 10th of March Deposites during the year ending on the 2d inst., withdrawn, including dividends paid and contingent expenses, It prohibits the bringing slaves into the State for for Jamaica-all well. Schr. Porpoise, Lt. Com $59,031 71 27,789 16 $31,342 55 $71 522 88 63,360 51 Bills read a third time and passed.-Authorizing road from Rochester to Attica, Genessee co.] The The bill to incorporate the Troy city bank was and directing the final settlement of the claim of bill was supported by Messrs. Gates, Granger, Max. called up. John Jacob Astor; ayes 104, noes 5. well, Kemble, Anbrews and Patterson; and opposed A long debate ensued, principally, upon the con To incorporate the Buffalo Marine Hospital. by Messrs. Babbitt and Howell, on the ground that duct of the Select committee which reported the To incorporate the Ithaca and Geneva Rail-road it might interfere with the business of the canals, names of irectors in the bill, contrary to the inCompany. when the question was taken and the bill passed-structions of the House. To authorize Hugh Laing to construct a dock or ayes 91, noes 16. wharf at Cold Ferry Point, Westchester co. IN SENATE-Friday, April 6. Mr. Allen presented the petition of Daniel Clark, to be authorized to erect a building for the accommodation of steamboats on the west side of West street in the city of New York. The following bills from the Assembly were favorably reported upon by standing committees:To incorporate the city of Buffalo; to amend the act incorporating the Northern Missionary Society. Mr. Dodge moved that the Senate meet this af. ternoon, at 4 o'clock, for the purpose of consider ing, in committee of the whole, the several bills before the Senate for the incorporation of banks. Messrs. Beardsley, Allen and Hubbard opposed the motion, and it was lost. Adjourned to 4 o'clock P. M. 1 The bill finally passed by a vote of 93 to 17. Tuesday, April 3. Mr. McKeon called for the question on the final Chenango Canal. The committee of the whole passage of the bill authorizing such an alteration of resumed the consideration of the bill providing for the map or plan of the city of New-York, as to lay the construction of the Chenango Canal; Mr Gran out a new street in the 12th ward of that city from The Senate resumed the consideration of the amendger having the floor, His remarks were extended 14th to 13th street; which passed. ments of the House of Representatives to the Bill until the usual hour of adjournment; when the com. The bill to incorporate the Orleans County bankuplementary to the several acts for the sale of the mittee rose and reported and the house adjourned. at Albion, was read a third time, and lost-ayes 80, public lands, and the amendments having been advonoes 28. eated by Messrs. Moore, Kane. Buckner and King, and read a third time, and, on the suggestion of Mr. concurred in. The bill from the House to amend the The bill to incorporate the Troy city bank was opposed by Messr. Ewing and Holines, were finally Granger that the bill had not been made conformable for the relief of certain surviving officers and solto the pattern bill, was laid on the table. frs of the army of the revolution, was read the seAlbany, was read a third tine, and lost; ayes 72, Government for the year 1832, was taken up as the The bill to incorporate the Merchants Bank of The bill making appropriations for the support of the cond time and referred to the Committee on Pensiona noes 44. unfinished business, the quesin being on the amendment proposed by the Committee on Finance, adding IN ASSEMBLY—Friday, April 6.—-Afternoon Session. n appropriation of four thousand five hundred dolThe House, in committee of the whole, had bills lars for the return of the ministers from France and to incorporate sundry banks under consideration, England. On this question Mr. Sprague first addressWhile the bill to incorporate the Bank of Gene.d the chair, and continued his remarks until a late see, was under consideration, Mr. Howland offered hour, when he gave way for a motion to adjourn. an amendment prohibiting any stockholder in the In the House of Representatives. Mr. Verplanck, Mr. Allen moved a resolution, that the several present Bank, from receiving any portion of the from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported bills relating to banks and insurance companies be new stock. This amendinent was opposed and lost which was read a first and second tune, and commmit. all re-appropriating certain unexpended balances, The following Bank bills were passed, in commited to a Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union. Various private bills, also, were reported by rland, and Lansing, from their respective committees Messrs. Muhlenburg. Drayton, Evans, of Maine, Suthand read twice, and referred to a Committee of the Whole House. Mr. Bell introduced a bill to provide means for extending the benefits of vacionation among the Indian tribes, as a preventative of the small pox. which was committed to a Committee of the Whole a the state of the Unn. The report of the Com est tee on the Judiciary on the subject of charges against he Collector of Wiscassett, was again considered; addressed the House until the close of the hour. and Mr. Mitchell, of S. Carolina, and Mr. Anderson inade the special order for Wednesday next, which, Bills read the third time and passed.-To amend the charter of the Seamen's Savings Bank in the eity of New York. Relating to the Supreme and Circuit Courts. The Senate resolved itself into a committee of the whole on the bill authorizing the assessment and collection of an annual tax, for three years, for the use of the people of this State; and the resolution moved by Mr. Maynard, for amending the Constitu. tion, so that the auction and salt duties be diverted from the canal to the general fund, after the year 1835. To incorporate the Merchants' Bank at Rochester. Do. Chemung Canal Bank, at Elmira. IN SENATE Saturday, April 7. rossed for a third reading this day. The House afThe Indian appropriation bill was ordered to be en terwards went into a Committee of the Whole on the Mr. Allen called for the consideration of his retate of the Union, Mr L. Condiet in the Chair, and solution fixing a day for the adjournment of the le-ool up the revolutionary pensións bill which was disMr. Bronson resumed and concluded his remarks gislature. Cassed until half past 4 o'clock, when the committee in favor of the bill. The resolution was opposed on the ground that rose, and the House adjourned -[Globe.] Mr. Maynard took the floor, and addressed the the legislature had not sufficient information as to committee until near the hour of adjournment, what would be the course that ought to be pursued against the bill for laying a tax, and in favor of the in relation to the apportionment bill now pendin substitute or amendments moved by him some day before Congress, when the resolution was again laid since. Mr. Edmonds moved to amend the resolution be. fore the hous, and which has not yet been discus sed, so that it will read as follows: Resolved, That the following amendment be pro. posed to te constitution, &e on the table. The committee of the whole again entered upon the consideration of the bill to impose an annual tax for two years. Mr. Maynard's substitute being under considera. tion, of Wednesday, April 4. In the SENATE the bill making appropriations to carry into effect certain Indian treaties, was report. ed, read thrice, and passed. At half past twelve, the Senate went, on motion of Mr. Tazewell, into the consideration of Executive business, in which nearly three hours were spent. ver of the reconsideration of the foriner vote, and In the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, the motion made by Mr. Slade, on Tuesday, to reconsider the The duties on the manufacture of salt, as establish Mr. Tracy addressed the committee in favor vote rejecting the resolution offered by Mr. Arnold, ed by the art of the 15th of April, 1817, or as here. the bill as reported by the committee on finance, directing the Committee on Internal Improvements after established by any amendment to the constitu- and against the substitute. Mr. T. spoke upwards tional Road from Buffalo, in the State of New York, to inquire into the expediency of constructing a Nation, and the duties on goods sold at auction, as now of two hours, when the committee rose and re-to New Orleans, was taken up. Mr. Arnold address. established, shall hereafter be and remain inviolab'e ported. appropriated and applied to defraying the ordinary expenses of administering the government of this for a safe and profitable investment of the safety the adoption of his resolution. The motion to reThe committee then took up the bill to provide ed the House in a long and discursive speech, in fastate; nor shall the duties on the manufacture of fund. salt aforesaid, nor the duties on goods sold at auction, as established as aforesaid, be at any time section which increases the salary of the bank com, the year 1832, was passed. The bili providing for Mr. Beardsley proposed an amendment to the consider was lost-yeas 74, Nays 94. The bill ma. king appropriations for the Indian Department for hereafter reduced, or diverted from the aforesaid missioners $500; the substance of which was, that objeet. this additional salary should not be allowed till all the vaccination of the Indians as a preventive of The tolls which may be imposed upon all the ca- the banks affected by this bill should file a certifi. small pox. &c., was considered in Committee, renals of this state, not required for the payment of the cate with the comptroller giving their consent to ported with amendments, and postponed until to debt incurred in the construction of the Erie and this increase of salary. norrow. The pension bill was next taken up in Champlain canals, shall be and remain inviolably Mr. B. said the object of this amendment was to Committee. Mr. Davis, of South Carolina, address. pledged for the cost of the construction of other ca- prevent the bill from being considered a two-thirded the committee in opposition to the general princi. nala now authorized by law, and for defraying the bill. ples of the bill, until the usual hour of adjournment, expenses of government, the promotion of educaton Mr. Seward opposed both the amendment and the when he gave way to a motion that the committe rise, and the further prosecotion of the system of internal section. protested against increasing the salary which was carried, and the House adjourned. improvement. of those bank commissioners, because there was no evidence that this salary was too low; but proof to Thursday, April 5. In the Senate, the bill supplementary to the act the contrary was before us: we had seen an honor- for the relief of the surviving officers and soldiers able Senator resigning his seat to obtain this office. of the revolution was taken up, and, où motion of Mr. Allen read a memorial from the banks of Mr. Foot, amended, so as to include seamen, offiNew York and Troy praying for an increase of sa-cers and marines of the Navy. Mr. Wilkins moved ary to bank commissioners; but the hour of ad- an amendment, extending the provisions of the bill journment having arrived, the committee fose and to "Indian Spies." Mr. Marcy moved to amend reported, and the Senate adjourned. the amendment, by adding "boatmen, waggoners, and express riders;" which motion was, after some A bill to incorporate the Mechanics' Bank of Ro- discussion, rejected, and the bill laid on the table.— chester was reported complete. Mr. Webster, from the select committee on the ap The House agreed with the report of the select portionment of Representatives, under the fifth cenMr. Gates called for the question on the final pas committees upon the bill to incorporate the City of sus, made a report thereon, accompanied by a billsage of the bill to incorporate the Tonewanda Rail. Rochester, and the bill was ordered to be engrossed the general appropriation bill was taken up: the road company. [Authorizes the construction of a for a third reading question being on the amendment, allowing $4,500 The committee then rose and reported, and the resolution as proposed to be amended by Mr. E. was ordered to be printed. After the consideration of executive business the senate adjourned. IN ASSEMBLY. M: Milledoler, reported the bill for the relief the S'ate Vaccine Institution. of A bill was reported regulating the measuring of of grain in the city of New York. The bills reperted to repeal the law relative to certain duties of the clerks of the Supreme Court. for the expenses of the return of our ministers from Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, therefore our Legislature cannot do better than adFrance and England. Mr. Sprague resumed and and took up the Revolutionary Pension Bill, which journ at once, for it is obvious now that they must concluded his speech upon the British Colonial was debatod till 4 o'clock.-[Tlegr.] Trade Arrangement, which has incidentally become Tuesday, March 10. row, have an extra Session in order to district the state. a subject of discussion. Previous to the adjourn- In the Senate, Mr. Grundy, from the Committee Congress will certainly not rise till June, and the ment, Mr. Foot gave notice that he should, to-mor- on the Post Office and Post Roads, reported the bill apportionment bill, if passed at all, may very possicall up the Pension Bill. from the other House to establish certain post roads bly be among the last that will be acted upon. In the House of Representatives, the bill provi-and to discontinue others, with numerous amend We just perceive, by the National Intelligencer of ding for the postponement of certain trials involving ments. Mr. Grundy having expressed a hope that titles to land in the Territory of Arkansas, was the Senate would take up the bill at this time, the the 11th (morning), that the Apportionment Bill was amended and ordered to be engrossed for a third amendments were read through, occupying the to be called up on that day in the Senate. The rending. The bill providing for the vaccination of whole of the hour for morning business. Mr. amendment proposed by the Committee to which it the Indians as a preventive of the small pox, was Holmies then resumed his remarks in reply to Mr. was referred is, "that the population of each state amended and ordered to be engrossed for a third rea- Kane, on the Appropriation Bill, and continued un-shall be divided by a common divisor, and that in ding. The House resumed, in committee, the con- til the hour of adjournment. sideration of the general pension biH. Mr. Davis, In the House of Representatives, after the usual addition to the number of members resulting from of South Carolina, concluded his remarks against routine of morning business had been gone through, such division, a member shall be allowed to each state, the bill, when, on motion of Mr. Choate, the com- the motion of the committee on the petition of Mc-whose fraction exceeds a moiety of the divisor. This mittee rose, and the House adjourned.-[Globe.] Clintock the Inspector, against McCrate the Collec amendment will doubtless lead to a long debate. tor of Wiscasset, came up. Mr. Storrs advocated Friday, April 6. In the Senate, a resolution was adopted changing the necessity of investigation by the House, into the INDIAN LANDS.-The Senate have ratified two trea. the hour of meeting, for the remainder of the ses. subject. Before he had concluded his remarks, the ties, negotiated by James B. Gardiner, with a remsion, from 12 to 11 o'clock, from and after the 16th hour allotted to reports and resolutions having ex. inst. The appropriation Bill was trken up, and Mr. pired, and this day having been set apart for bills re-nant of the Shawnee tribe, and with a remnant of the Kane spoke about two hours, without concluding, lating to the District of Columbia, the House, on mo- Ottowas, both now resident in Ohio. For a valuable in reply to the speech of Mr. Sprague on the Brit- tion of Mr. Doddridge, went into Committee of the consideration, these Indians agree to cede all their ish Colonial Trade arrangement. The Senate then Whole, Mr. Ellsworth in the Chair, and took up the adjourned to Monday. consideration of several bills relating to the District lands in Ohio to the United States, and agree to emiThe House of Representatives, at an early hour, of Columbia, with which it was occupied for the re- grate beyond the Mississippi. The Shawnee reserwent into Committee of the Whole on the State of mainder of the day. the Union, upon the bill making appropriations for certain internal improvements for the year 1832. lengthy discussion ensued, when, at half after four o'clock, the committee rose, obtained leave to sit again, and the House adjourned.--[Globe,] Saturday, April 7. The Senate did not sit to.day. A vation thus ceded, is of one hundred and twenty five sections or square miles; that of the Ottowas only of twenty-one thousand seven hundred and sixty acres. LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.-Tho military appropriation bill has at length become a law-and is published in the official paper. It was time, for every thing was at a stand in the army and its de. pendencies, we believe, for want of money. Another law, authorizing the sale, in lots so small ded by this band, is of forty-eight miles square. STILL ANOTHER.-In the Globe received to-day, we find another treaty concluded with a mixed band of Seneca and Shawnee Indians in Ohio, of the saine effect as those above noticed. The reservation co ed, and published. OFFICIAL In the House of Representatives, Mr. Pearce resumed and concluded the remarks which he com-as 40 acres, of the public lands, has been passed, and The Treaty recently concluded with the Creeks, menced on Thursday and continued on Friday, against the report of the Committee on the Judicia. as it may interest some of our country readers espe- by Mr. Secretary Cass, has been ratified, proclaim. ry, asking to be discharged from the further consid. cially, we copy it: eration of the affidavit of a Mr. McClintock, a re- An act supplementary to the several laws for the sale moved inspector, alleging charges against the col of Public Lands. lector of customs for the port of Wiscasset, Maine. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre DEPARTMENT OF STATE. The further discussion of the subject was arrested sentatives of the United States of America in Con- Despatches have been received by the Departby a call for the orders of the day. Mr. Howard. gress assembled, That from and after the first day of ment of State from our Chargé d'Affaires in Portufrom the Committee on Commerce, reported a bill May next, all the public lands of the United States, gal, among which is the following proces-verbal of to enforce quarantine regulations, which was passed. when offered at private sale, may be purchased at the arrangement concluded at Lisbon, on the 19th of Numerous private bills were considered in Commit- the option of the purchaser, either in entire sections, January last, for the indemnifications on account of tee of the Whole, reported to the House, and, with half sectione, quarter sections, half quarter sections, seizures made in 1829, by the Portuguese squadron one exception, directed to be engrossed. or quarter quarter sections; and in every case of a while blockading the Island of Terceira: division of a half quarter section, the line for the di. LISBON, JANUARY 19, 1832. Galatea, Gleauer, $33744 42 38063 85 7270 00 To be paid in metal according to the accounts presented. Monday, April 9. In the Senate, the Revolutionary Pension Bill vision thereof shall run east and west, and the cor. The interview, as designated by the undersigned, was taken up, and Mr. Robinson offered an amend.ners and contents of quarter quarter sections, which the Viscount Santarem, Secretary for Foreign Af ment, to which Mr. Grundy offered an addition, to may thereafter be sold, shall be ascertained as nearly fairs of Portugal, in his letter dated the 3d instant, include in the provisions of the bill those officers as may be, in the manner, and on the principles, di- to the undersigued, Thomas L. L. Brent, Chargé and soldiers who served with Generals Wayne, rected and prescribed by the second section of an d'Affaires of the United States, having taken place Clark, Harmar, Hamtramck, and St. Clair, in the act, entitled "An-act concerning the mode of sur- on the 4th of this month, the Government of PortuIndian war, after the Revolution. This amendment veying the public lands of the United States," passed gal has agreed to pay to the United States the folwas supported by Messrs. Robinson, Bibb, Grundy, on the eleventh day of February, eighteen hundred lowing indemnities for the prizes, the Ann, Galatea, and Benton, and opposed by Messrs. Foot and and five; and fractional sections, containing fewer Gleaner, and Planter, made by the squadron of PorSmith. After a short discussion, the bill was laid on or more than one hundred and sixty acros, shall, in tugal, blockading the Island of Terceira, viz: on the table, in order to take up the appropriation like manner, as nearly as may be practicable, be sub For the brig Ann, bill. After Mr. Kane had concluded his remarks, divided into querter quarter sections, under such Mr. Holmes took the floor and addressed the Senate rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the until the adjournment. Secretary of the Treasury: Provided, That this act In the House of Representatives, during the pre. shall not be construed to alter any special provision The account for the owners of the brig Planter, sentation of petitions, Mr. Archer introduced a me. made by law for the sale of land in town lots: morial from the Petersburgh Rail-road Company, And, Provided also, That no person shall be per- not having been presented, it is to be made out, and praying for the remission of the duties on certain mitted to enter more than one half quarter section is to be allowed upon the same principles as the foriron imported for the use of that Rail-road. It was of land under this act, in quarter quarter sections, mer accounts, to be paid in the same periods, and in referred to the Committee on Commerce. Mr. Ka. in his own name, or in the name of any other per- the same manner from the 19th of January of this vanagh, of Maine, presented certain documents exson, and in no case, unless he intends it lor cultiva year, the day of this arrangement. Previous to its eulpatory of the Collector of Wiscasset, which were tion, or for the use of improvement: And the person presentation to the Portuguese Government it is to read to the House on the resumption of the debate making an application to make an entry under this be examined and corrected by the Government of on the subject of the charge brought against that of act, shall file his or her affidavit, under such regula. the United States, and examined also by the Govficer. Mr. Drayton, from the Committee on Military tions as the Secretary of the Tresury may prescribe, ernment of His Most Faithful Majesty. Affairs, reported a bill for the establishment of a mili. that he or she makes the entry in his or her own The terms of payment are fixed at the following tary board, and for the administration and govern. name, for his or her own benefit; and not in trust period, calculated from the 19th of January of this ment of the Ordnance Department, which was read for another: Provided, further, that all actual set- year, viz: one-fourth in three, one-fourth in six, onetwice and postponed till Thursday. Mr. Archer, from tlers, being house-keepers, upon the public lands, fourth in aine, and one-fourth in twelve, in Govern. the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported a bill pro- shall have the right of preemption to enter, within ment Bills on the Treasury; the funds for the payviding for a deficit in the appropriation therein nam. six months after the passage of this act, not excced-ment of these indemnities will be ready at the sti. ed. The bill from the Senate for the relief of Jefferson ing the quantity of one half quarter section, under palated periods. College, Mississippi, reported with amendments, by the provisions of this act to include his or their im. The interest of five per cent. to be added to the Mr. Plummer from the committee on the public provements, under such regulations as have been, amount of the indemnities of such vessel calculated lands, was taken up, and the amendments having or may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treas from the 19th of January of this year. been concurred in, the bill as amended was ordered ury; and in cases where two persons shall live upon As regards the indemnity for the mariners of the to be engrossed for a third reading this day. The the same quarter section, subject to be intered under Galatea, for the clothes double the amount of the ac bills for postponing the trial of certain suits of law the provision of this act, each shall have the right count presented, will be paid, and since no precise in Arkansas, and for extending the benefits of vacci- to enter that quarter quarter soction which includes amount has been claimed for the indemnities for nation among the Indian tribes, were severally read his improvement. them on account of their arrest and treatment during it, the government of Portugal proposes to that of the United States, that that amount shall be regulat. The apportionment bill seems destined to another ed according to some precedent, if to be found, ob ordered to be printed, The House went into a long nap in the Senate of the United States, and serving towards the Mariners of the United States, a third time and passed.. Mr. Clay, of Alabama, APPROVED, 5th April, 1832. VISCOUNT DE SANTAREM. DEPARTMENT OF STATE. illness. ADJOURNMENT OF THE LEGISLATURE. The general what this government has done towards the mariners(turalist, because "its lungs, heart, intestines, &c.] of other Powers, under similar circumstances, con- resemble those of quadrupeds; they breathe by lungs, impression is, that the resolution adopted yesterday sidered in relation to their treatment during the ar- not by gills; suckle their young; have no scales, by the Assembly, for an adjournment on Tuesday rest, for which purpose it is proposed to look, with and a horizontal tail, the reverse of fishes. And the 24th inst., will be concurred in by the Senate.whales are classed with mammalia, because, although [Albany Argus.] out delay, for some precedent. Extract of a letter, dated Green Bay, Feb 8. For the indemnification of the articles of the sea. their home be entirely in the depth of the waters, The small pox is making dreadful ravages among men of the Gleaner and Planter, the double will be they have several features in common with the larg. er quadrupeds: they have a heart with two venticles the Indians along the western shore of Lake Michi paid in conformity to the laws of prizes. or cavities; and lungs through which they respire; gan. As many as sixty had died of this malady at and are unable to separate the air from the water, Milwauky up to the last accounts. as fishes do by means of their gills. Hence it is a The Nestor of the Swiss literati, M. de Bonstetvulgar error to call the whale a fish; yet he is en. The following is the translation of a Decree tirely an inhabitant of the sea, having a tail, while ten, died on the 3d February at Geneva, after a short issued by the Government of Mexico, by which his front limbs much more resemble fins than legs, Amusing jeu d'esprit, descriptive of several the port of Vera Cruz is declared to be closed and are solely used for pawing the deep. against all trading vessels, whether foreign or ma The breast-fins of a whale, instead of being com. of the leaders of the Tory party in England.-, tional, as long as it remains in the power of the posed of straight spines like those of fishes, Lord Ellenborough, Ama-Tory; Sir Henry Har. insurgent forces :they conceal bones and muscles formed very like dinge, Inflama-Tory; Sir Charles Wetherell, Declathe like the fore legs of land animals; but so envel ma-Tory; Sir Robert Inglis, Conserva-Tory; Mr. To the Consul of the United States at Vera Cruz. oped in dense skins, that the fingers have no Alexander Baring, Migra-Tory; Mr. Goulburn, NuMEXICO, FEB. 22, 1832. seperate motion, though the hand is flat, very pliant, ga-Tory; Mr. Praed, Preda. Tory; Mr. Dawson, OraSir: His Excellency the President of the United large and strong, enabling the whale to sustain the Tory; Lord Lyndhurst, Rota-Tory; Earl of HarMexican States has commanded me to make known young closely compressed to its body, as was re.rowby, Emenda-Tory; Duke of Wellington, Pe. to you the following Decrce of the General Con- marked by Aristotle.-[Dr. Harwood.] gress, and to inform you at the same time, that the port of Vera Cruz, being in the occupation of the rebels, comes within the terins, and is thereby declared to be closed against all trade whatever. DECREE. RAFAEL MANGINO. COURT OF SESSIONS-April Term.-Present, the Art. 1. The Executive shall be empowered to de- The same, for assault and battery on the watch. Art. 2. All such ports shall remain closed, as by the above article, until they have been declared by the Government to be no longer occupied by the rebel forces. • The same, for robbing Mr. Concklin's store, in remp-Tory; Sir Robert Peel, Fac-Tory; Mr. Percival Incanta-Tory; Lord Aberdeen, Prevarica. Tory; Lord Wharncliffe, Media-Tory; Duke of Cumberland, Damna-Tory; Mr John Wilson Croker, His-Tory; Earl of Eldon, Dila-Tory; The Marquis of London. derry, Fulmina-Tory; Sir Henry Halford, Condolo. Congratula-Tory, alias Purga-Tory. The Charles St. Clique are called the Direc-Tory and the secretaty the Secret.Tory, Specimen of Mr. M'Ray's curious Translation of the Scriptures." Berose the silver cord (the mar. row of the back-bone, with its root and branches) be contracted; or the golden vial (the brain's mem branes) be cracked; or the pitcher be broken at the Christopher Thompson, petit larceny, second of fountain, (the cavities and conveyers of the blood from the heart,) or the wheel be broken at the cisfence, 2 years 3 months state prison. Thos. Jackson, grand larceny, 3 years state pris. tern, (the returners of it from the lungs, liver, head, on. This man is an Englishman, and had been but hands and feet); the double, yea quadruple circulaArt. 3. The 18th article of the law of November one day in this country. He arrived in the ship Pre-tion (galal and ruts) being repeated, be interrupted and cease. 3 Kings iv. 33." 16, 1827, shall be considered in force only, in such sident, from London. Wm. Rose, alias Roman Nose Bill, petit larceny places as are declared to be free from the power of the rebels, and the importation duties are to be paid second offence, 2 years and 2 months state prison. at ports designated as obedient to the general go- The Lotteries.-The Attorney General submitted vernment. Should any port be found to be in the a long and able Report to the Assembly, yesterday The narrative, which we have inserted below, situation described by Article 1st of the present De- from which we select a paragraph to show when, in of a visit some years ago on an interesting and cree, said duties must be paid directly to the Treasu. his opinion, the Lottery System must terminate : ry of the Republic, or to the proper officers of the "Lotteries in schemes of mixed (money and land) humane errand, to that wild tribe of Indians the nearest place, in suomission to the general govern- prizes, may be continued for the period of Eleven Pawnee loups, will attract our readers. It is from years from the time the Lottery Institutions filed the pen of a young offieer in the army who accomArt. 4. The duties which are yet unpaid upon their assent to the act of 1822; which will expire panied the expedition of mercy, and who describes goods previously introduced, are to be paid to the on the 21st day of April, 1834 and beyond that Treasury of the Republic, or to the proper officers time, in the opinion of the Attorney General, there very clearly and creditably the scenes which he witof the nearest port in submission to the general go- is no warrant for drawing any Lottery within this nessed. State."-[Albany Evening Journal.] ment. vernment. Given in Mexico this 22d day of February, 1832. A BUSTAMENTE. SUMMARY. MISCELLANY. about 15 miles S. E. of the Hook, by some whalemen Buffalo, April 2.-Fire.-On Sunday evening Mountains, was to be put to death by the most lin. from New London, en bourd the fishing-smack Fan He was All the efforts of the traders resi [COMMUNICATED FOR THE NEW-YORK AMERICAN.] We have heretofore mentioned the "Chinese Account of an expedition to the Pawnee Loup tribe Courier and Canton Gazette," as a very interesting of Indians, performed in March and April 1827. paper. It is edited, we learn, by a gentleman from Early in the Spring of 1827, information was giv. this city, Wm. Wood, Jr. Esq.,-son of the estima-en to the U. States Indian Agent, at the military ble actor. He is the same who published here a station of Council Bluffs, that, in compliance with volume of notes on the Chinese and their manners, barbarous superstition of the Pawnee Loup Indians," "VERY LIKE A WHALE "-Early yesterday morning which is remarkable for graphic description and in-a female prisoner, captured by a war party from one of the tribes who rove at the foot of the Rocky a whale of the right-whale species was harpooned structive details.-[Nat. Gazette.] last, the store of Mr. Sheldon Chapin, corner of gering torments. Lady of that port, Capt. James Chapman, who had Main and Seneca streets, in this village, and that of ding at their village, to save her from so cruel a fate, visited our wafers for this express purpose. were unavailing, so deeply rooted was the belief that towed up to town in the course of the day, or rathe Mr. Erastus Sparrow, on Main street adjoining all their success in war and in the chase depended We both wooden buildings, were consumed by fire. Loss to Brooklyn, where he arrived just at dusk. there took a look at him; but he was so much under in buildings and goods about $7,000. A great part on the religious observance of a rite handed down water, and withal it was so dark, that we could not of the goods were saved. Both were insured. It to them as indispensable and imperative from earliest judge accurately of his merits. We were however in is supposed the insurance will more than cover the tradition. This barbarous superstition consisted in formed by the whalemen, that he was 55 to 60 feet ir damages. length; 8 or 10 feet through, in the largest place; and would yield from 45 to 50 bbls of oil. They considered him worth about $500, apart from the accidental value which he derived from being a stranger in a strange city. It is most likely he will be exhibited fo for a day or two at a show. Several other whales were seen from the same vecsal in the region, of the Hook, and it is not improbable some further captures will be made. The whalemen who made this prize were about 10 in number, most of them recently from a voyage to the Pacific. FOR THE LADIES. French manner of Washing Cashmere Shawls. 2nd. Beat up six yolks of eggs and mix them in sacrificing (in the Spring), to "the Bright Star" or Venus, the first prisoner captured on the war path the preceding Autumn. The runner, sent by the traders, informed us that the utmost favor that could be obtained from the Great War Chief was a promise to delay the sacrifice for eight days, thereby giving the Whites an opportunity to attempt her rescue. Accordingly, the Indian Agents, attended by a small military escort, prepared to set out for the Pawnee Lonp village. The writer, having but little knowledge of the manners and mode of living of the more remote tribes, and feeling great curiosity to visit one of the wildest and most warlike, under such singular circumstances, obtained permission to accompany the ex. Our Eastern friends, who are calculating General pedition. Our party, including servants, &c. connal of Commerce. "This fish-like animal," which Jackson's age at eighty years, because of a Speech sisted of 17 persons; we were all mounted, some is not a fish, now lies floating on the outside of the said to have been made by him in 1801, in which he on horses, others on mules, together with 6 or 8 fort, with numbers of boys and children of a larger is represented to have said "I am now near fifty sumpter mules: these last were laden with our progrowth, promenading about its white breast, and years of age," confound him with another citizen visions, and Indian goods, such as red cloth, knives, of the sanie name, long since deceased, who was blankets, powder, vermillion, &c. taken to propi. thrusting their penknives into the blubber. at that time a Senator of the United States from tiate the favor of the chiefs and braves, without whose aid our object could not be attained. The whale is not a fish, says a distinguished na- the state of Georgia.-National Intelligencer.] Crowds of people of both sexes were this morn. ing hurrying down to Castle Garden to behold the prizo, whose capture is noticed as above in the Jour. If this is done with care the shawl will look like a new one. On leaving the Bluffs, we at once enter on those After remaining an hour with the Grand Pawnees, blunted arrows: as they approach the villages, scouts immense Prairies, which extend from the Missouri we proceeded to the village of the "Lonps," where are sent out in different directions, with all the for. to the Rocky Mountains; entirely destitute of timur journey terminated; and were greeted with the malities and precautions of actual war: at length ber except on the banks of water courses, solitary same welcome as at the town of their allies. The one of the scouts retaras with the intelligence that and still as a desert, this singular and characteristic most distinguished warriors came out to meet us, he has discovered the enemy. They then separate feature of the western regions of our country strikes and the Head Chief escorted us to his lodge. Here and surround the village; when near the scaff ld, the wondering beholder with mingled sensations; let us leave our party for a time, and in the interim on a given signal, they shout the War Whoop, and awe and delight struggle for the mastery; at length I will endeavor to give you a description of the vil- with deafening cries rush towards the poor prisoner: the mind is left with a feeling of reverence for that Be. lage of the Wolf Pawnees. they then stop at a considerable distance, and the ing which doeth great things past finding out, and Immediately on the left bank of the Platte, (which boys pour in repeated voll es of arrows; these (be.. Wonders without number." Our journey was diversifi. is here half a mile wide,) the traveler discovers se-ing without barbs) do not wound seriously, but stick. ed with no remarkable incidents; a few deer, elk and veral hillocks resembling ant-hills, scattered over ing in the flesh cause very great pain. This ends the antelopes crossed our path, evincing by their extreme the prairie; as he approaches, he sees they are cont. first act of the tragedy. Next, the old women heat shyness that the foot of man but seldom invaded the cal mounds of earth, from 40 to 60 teet in height; many pieces of iron (such as arrow heads, knife solitude of their native deserts. During the whole these are the lodges of the Pawnee Loups. On ad. blades, &c.) red hot, and apply them at intervals to time we met but one human being, an Indian bun-vancing still nearer, the cries of women, squalling different parts of the body all this time the fire is ter; we caine upon him unexpectedly, and his looks of children, and barking of dogs, &c. soon convince kept burning beneath, and has scorched the legs and showed distrust and alarm. I know not why it is, him that these earthen mounds are the abode of hu. soles of the feet almost to a cinder. Thus the but when journeying over these vast plains, and even man beings, and that he is in the vicinity of a pop- wretched creature endures many weary hours of tor with a numerous company, I have always felt a sen- ulous village. As the lodges are similar, a descripture, in vain praying for death as a release. At last, sation of almost utter loneliness much more decition of one will answer for all. Conceive a section when the savage chief perceives that the victim of ded than when travelling alone among mountains, of a cylinder from 50 to 100 feet in diameter, its is cruelties will soon be insensible, and that exor in a country diversified with hill and dale. But, elements composed of two concentric circles of hausted nature cannot much longer suffer, he ad. to return from this digression: here and there we posts, 15 or 20 feet high: now suppose the spaces vances with his warriors, and, amid a shower of passed some old camp or battle ground, the scene of between the posts to be firmly wattled in with reeds, spears and arrows, ends her woes and life together. the ainicable meeting or hostile contest of various and mud; joists are laid horizontally on the posts, Such was the fate from which we hoped to rescue Indian clans. At one in particular, at the con- and froin them spring rafters, converging to the this miserable captive. Several presents were districlusion of a fatiguing day's travel, on fording La apex; these are crossed by other rafters, and when buted among the principal chiefs, who promised to Coquille, a beautiful stream that flows into the Lathe frame work is formed, the whole is filled in and use all their influence in the council (which was to Platte, we suddenly came upon a row of large covered with earth as before, excepting an aperture convene the next morning) to prevail on their war. mounds of wattled earth rising several feet above for light, and the escape of smoke; the entrance riors to deliver the pri oner to us; and as we were the surface of the prairie-they were graves, stern is through a sort of covered passage in the side of tearful that some attempt on her life might be made but faithful monitors that discord and war had dis the lodge; the interior is occupied by many fami- during the night, we prevailed on them to remove turbed these seemingly peaceful solitudes, and, as if lies. Cribs made of cane, and lined and covered her from the Medicine Lodge, and place her under to add force to the lesson thus harshly inculcated, with mats, run around the insside of the lodge, and our charge. We now saw the captive for the first on looking around me, I discerned suspended on the form very comfortable sleeping places for the in time, she was a woman of some five and twenty decayed trunk of an oak a human skull grinning in mates. These cribs are separate divisions for the years of age, of a mild and intelligent, but by no ghastly mockery, and, arrayed in the gaudy colors different families. The floor is matted, and in the means handsome countenance; she was dressed in a of the war paint, a deep gash on the forehead show-centre burns the common fire, over which constant sort of tunic of Elk skin, and enveloped in a Buffalo ing that the warrior had met his death in battle.ly hangs an enormous kettle filled generally with Robe; she was evidently fully aware of the peril We afterwards learned that this was the scene of a some of their various savage messes, such as buffa. of her situation, and on first entering appeared bloody fight between the Pawnees and the O.ma-has, lo, beaver, and elk meat, mixed with lyed" corn to think that we were to be her executioners, in which the Pawnees were victors. squashes, or beans, the only vegetables these Indi-nd summoned all her Indian stoicism to her aid. We travelled for four days without meeting with aes pretend to cultivate. After some time, by dint of signs, &c. we made any of those signs which denote an approach to the In a short time a plentiful repast was set before her comprehend that our object was to save hor vicinity of an Indian village. At length, on the us, to which hunger prompted us to do ample justice, if possible. At length, when we were under. fifth day, the faintly marked trail which guided our notwithstanding the coarseness of the cookery, &c. tood, to my thinking, never human being could course became more distinct; then, instead of one But what was our dismay, when, after we had fully have evinced a deeper sense of gratitude: there narrow track, it was increased to three or four, and satiated our appetites, an invitation was received to were no transports no sudden burst of joy, at so by noon twenty well beaten paths, running parallel feast in another lodge, and we were told 'twould be anlooked for a prospect of deliverance. She gazed to each other, showed that our journey was drawing a great breach of savage etiquette not to accept it; at us steadfastly, as ifto see that we were not deceiv. nigh its conclusion. We encamped this night as usual. accordingly we did great injustice to our feelings in ing her; then, and only then, I saw the big drop.. At noun the following day we descried the " Lodg- doing justice to the viands placed before us in bar-standing in her eye, and but for a moment, a molan. es" of the Grand Pawners looking like hillocks or barous abundance. How our stomachs quaked at choly smile played o'er her wan and sunken features. mounds of earth scattered o'er the surface of the prai- seeing prodigious earthern dishes filled with lyed 'Twas indeed eloquent; never shall I forget that rie. As we approached we saw the inhabitants crow. corn, buffalo meat, &c., which we were expect. simile; the deepest burst of grief could not be more ded on the tops of their lodges, and apparently anx.ed to empty. There was no nincing the matter, exquisitely inournful. ious to make out who we were; suddenly a cloud no playing with the knife and fork here; in short, We passed a sleepless night in our lodge, having of smoke arose from the village; this we were told we had to use large wooden and horn spoons, each been kept awake by the continual cries and whoops was to inform their allies, the "Loups," whose of which certainly held a pint. At length having, of the Indians; the village was evidently in a state village was ten miles distant, of the approach gorged ourselves to the utmost, we thought our of high excitement, but we hoped that through the of strangers as friends, and white men: indeed trencher toils were ended; when, oh horrible! an influence of the chiefs and the presents we intend. the extreme watchfulness of these people would other chief entered and invited us to his lodge, to goed distributing in Council on the morrow, that the shame more civilized nations: for miles around through a similar ceremony: this was too much; we prisoner would be cheerfully delivered to us. The their villages, on every bill, ridge or point or appealed to our interpreter in despair, and requested morning came, and after breakfast, the Indians comland, that commands views of the adjacent coun. him to thank the Brave for his invitation, but to as-menced entering the lodge, which in a short time try, watches are constantly kept; this is to guard sure him that we could not possibly eat another mor was crowded with warriors. Nothing now hinder. against surprize, and is one of the first du- sel. On sauntering through the village, we observed our proceeding to business, but the absence of the ties taught the young Pawnee who aspires to become ed two tali posts, planted in the ground, their tops" Great Medicine Man," under whose custody the a warrior. In traveling through the prairies the tra- wound round with cloth and skins, and crossed by a prisoner had been since her capture. As he had reder or hunter often sees the gigantic outline or a hu- beam a few feet from the bottom. This was directly commended her execution as a religious duty, we man form distinctly traced on the summit of some in front of the Medicine Lodge," in which the un-apprehended serious obstacles from his opposition. hill in the distance; for in the prairie, objects "loom" fortunate victim was confined, and was intended for A bustle outside at length announced his approach. as at sea, and appear of much more than the ordina. her scaffold. The throng made way, and he sprung directly into ry size, The Indian scouts are well aware of this, The poor prisoner had been confined for months the centre of the lodge, and stood before us. A more and therefore keep as much as possible in the shade, in this lodge, under the charge of the " great Medi- savage and hideous looking being could scarcely be and seldom stand erect for any length of time. But cine man" or High Priest, who fasted himself while conceived: he was apparently fifty years old, tall, to return to our narrative: When within a mile of he fed her on the best they had, and as it were, fat- and of a very dark complexion, much emaciated the village some 60 or 100 mounted warriors, near-tened her for the slaughter. Every evening she was from the rigid abstinence to which he had for many ly naked, and without saddles, rushed at full speed brought out and compelled to dance her death weeks subjected himself; his countenance wild and to meet us; when within an hundred yards or so, dance," and sing her scalp song," amid the shouts haggard, his eyes bright and deep sunk in his head, they separated, uttering the most discordant cries of infuriated savages. I subjoin a description of the and his long hair floating in elf locks over his shou. and wildly careering, performed the most fantastic intended mode of her execution, as related to me by ders. The legs and feet were bare, his dress conevolutions now a band would charge us in front, an intelligent trader and nothing but a reliance on sisting merely of a long blue coat, trimmed with red, tossing their spears in the air and catching them as his veracity, and the sight of the preparations evi-nd a fillet encircling his forehead. His first act was they fell; then on a given signal each wild warrior dently going forward, caused ine to believe that even to take a small lookingglass from his bosom, and hold bowed to his courser's neck, uttering the wail of de. savages could perpetrate such horrors. The victim it under the aperture in the roof of the lodge, so as feat; then they would encircle us howling like so was to be placed in an upright position, and secured to catch the reflection of the sun, all the time mutmany demons, brandishing their lances and clashing by the hands and feet on the scaffold before describoring some gibberish; this lasted for some minutes, their buffalo-hide shields, anon, they fled, and formed; a slow fire is then kindled beneath, not suffi- the Indians viewing his operations in silent awe, ed themselves some distance from us in two long ciently hot to consume the flesh, but so managed as firmly believing he held direct communion with files on each side of the trail, and as we passed to cause intense pain: while suffering this torment, the great Wahcondah. He at length announces that through each warrior extended his band, and utter.all the old hags in the village collect, and load her he great spirit was pleased, and approved of their ed his uncouth salutation. Such was the welcome with taunts and imprecations. In the mean time, proceedings: after this farce he gravely saluted us, of the Pawnees, and many an awkward rider of our one of the principal Braves assembles a war party. lighted his pipe at the council fire, and gave three party as he soothed his frightened horse, wished to whom are joined all the boys anxious to distin whiffs, one in honor of Wahcondah upwards, one to that it had not been so boisterous. guish themselves as warriors, armed with bows aud the spirits of the Air horizontally, and one down |